There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.